diluvian

• Compared to today's schools it was positively ante-diluvian ... —  The Bookworm
• Could this be why everyone in the public sector, including the teachers who are diligently giving our children diluvian nightmares, have completely embraced the global warming panic?
• (Ironically, the overthrow of Flood Geology - all sediments were either pre-diluvian or ante-diluvian - by uniformitarianism, had itself been a giant step forward.) —  Watts Up With That?
• Now, you surely will not deny that man existed at the time of this catastrophe, and he consequently may have existed at the period of the other revolutions, which are supposed to be produced in the Huttonian views by subterraneous fire The Unknown_.--I have made use of the term "diluvian," because it has been adopted by geologists, but without meaning to identify the cause of the formations with the deluge described in the sacred writings. —  Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher
• So Noah was high priest of all the post-diluvian world during his life. —  Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings

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